... in the power of the collective over the individual.
However there were also disappointments, notably losing the Euro 88 final with the USSR against Holland and the European Cup semi-final in 1999 ...

... myself in. Suicide? Brazen attempt to shame mam and dad into taking me home early? Bid to emigrate to Holland, where they had proper parents who had their priorities right? I can’t remember, because ...

... worst misses, in some ways, were perpetrated by one of Holland’s finest, their leading scorer in all World Cup finals, who gets the prize for a portfolio and an individual cock-up.
Johnny Rep was ...

... Jack Burkett made one particularly high challenge on Preston’s Dave Wilson and has admitted that he would have been sent off for it now. Instead referee Arthur Holland settled for having a quiet ...

... game, against eventual finalists Holland. This put us within one goal of the second round. We promptly conceded again but Scotland dominated, won, and generally began justifying the hype the very moment ...

... It’s where cliches breed. The glory of the Matthews Cup final. The thrill of the White Horse final. The beaming Bobby Moore and the prancing Nobby Stiles. The four-goal salvo against Holland. The ...

... point when they say that some tournaments are remembered more for the teams who did not win them. Hungary in 1954, Holland in 1974 and 1978, France in 1982.
Shortlisted as book of the year for 2016 in ...

... elsh internationals were picked at all. For The Six, there were eight players from West Germany and Holland including six who were to play in the following year’s World Cup final.
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... tournaments taking place over the Channel in France in 1998 and then Belgium and Holland in 2000, thousands of new fans started to use the internet to take advantage of airline revolutionaries such as ...

... Holland. Now the player, who was first called up by Leo Beenhakker in 2007, rarely makes mistakes and his ironic nickname "Kung-fu Pazdan" has been changed to "No Pazdaran” (a reference to the Spanish civ ...

... England’s tournament – a series of sublime moments masking broader weaknesses. As Gibbons notes, the 4-1 win over Holland was hailed as a triumphant thrashing, but was actually an exercise in economical ...

... Euro 88 the outlook was very different. England had lost both matches in Group Two, 1-0 to the Republic of Ireland and 3-1 to Holland, before meeting the unbeaten Soviet Union. England were not up to the ...